4qtr2007 - GottaGettaBlog! Highlights

I've been using GottaGettaBlog! as a vehicle to capture news, notes, and musings about coaching, mentoring, and getting more from YOUR Untapped Potential - along with whatever other stuff I happen to find amusing and/or thought-provoking - since June of 2003.Highlighted postings from last quarter are listed below - just follow the links:

Thursday, October 05, 2006

4qtr2006 - Notable Quotables: Great Things I Didn't Say First!

“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. ” - Cyril Connolly

“What can this piece of paper do; imagine?” - Alamgir Hashmi

“Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.” - Gutzkow

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us.” - Carl Sagan

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.” - Jim Murray

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein

Monday, July 03, 2006

3qtr2006 - Great Things I Didn't Say!

"The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the head at the same time and still be able to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer

“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” - Edgar Watson Howe

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing” - Aristotle

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose." - E.M. Gray

"If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain." - Jimmy Durante

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

1qtr2006 - Great Things I Didn't Say!

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins

"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

"One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard

"A man of words and not of deeds s like a garden full of weeds." - Mother Goose

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." - Indira Gandhi

"Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." - Josh Billings

Monday, April 07, 2003

2qtr2003 - Great Things I Didn't Say!

"Buddha left a road map. Jesus left a road map. Krishna left a road map. Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself." - Stephen Levine

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." - Jacob A. Riis

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." - Joseph Pulitzer

"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done." - David Lloyd George

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